Pulmonologist Joins Hospital Staff

Dr. Marisa Friscia, an internist and pulmonologist, has joined the staff of Chester River Hospital Center. She will practice with Helen Noble, M.D. and John Seymour, M.D., at Internal Medicine Associates on Speer Road, in Chestertown. Dr. Friscia is board certified in pulmonary, internal and critical care medicine.

She earned her Bachelor of Science degree at SUNY at Stony Brook, New York and her medical degree from St. George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada, Wisconsin. Dr. Friscia completed a residency in internal medicine at Metropolitan Hospital Center in New York City and fellowships in both pulmonary and critical care medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. Prior to coming to Chester River Hospital Center, she worked at the New York Hospital, Cornell, Manhattan, New York, as an attending physician in emergency medicine and as a clinical instructor in medicine.

She is a strong advocate of preventive care through healthy lifestyle choices and good nutrition and she and her husband, Dennis Fitzhugh, chose to move to Chestertown so she would have the opportunity to practice more general wellness medicine in addition to pulmonary medicine.

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